Sunset Oasis

Author: Bahaa Taher

Pages: 346

In his new and wonderful novel “Sunset Oasis”, which achieved great popular success and critical acclaim, Bahaa Taher returns to the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the British occupation of Egypt.

Where the Egyptian police officer Mahmoud Abdel Zaher, who lived a dissolute life between bars and night girls, is sent to the Siwa Oasis because the authorities suspect that he sympathizes with the revolutionary ideas of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Ahmed Orabi.

He takes his Irish wife “Catherine”, who is passionate about antiquities and is searching for the tomb of Alexander the Great, to immerse themselves in a new world of extreme wealth and privacy that forces them and the people of the oasis to confront themselves in a time when opportunism, betrayal, and the desire for love and heroism are mixed.

The novel's events also reflect a creative blend of the past, present, subject, history and reality, expressing the concerns of the nation and presenting the experience of the relationship between East and West on the human and civilizational levels, including conflict and harmony.